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WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

SLIP HOLDER AND STRI'PPER.y

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 499,371, dated J une 13, 1893.

Original application tiled May 31, 1892, Serial No.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Slip Holders and Strippers, fully described and represented in the following specilication and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The object of the presentinvention is to provide a simple, cheap, and convenient combined holder and stripper for tickets, receipts, forms, or slips of any kind, which will be automatically adjustable so as to hold the slips securely as the number is reduced, and will enable the user to quickly and conveniently detach a portion of a slip by tearing it along p the edge of the stripper.

The holder and stripper may be applied to a book or pad of slips such as conductors cash fare receipts, or other forms from which a check or receipt is to be made out and detached, leaving a part of the form on the book or pad as a record or check, in which case the holder and stripper is preferably arranged to slide upon the book or pad so as to enable the forms to be severed at any desired line, or it may be applied to tickets or other forms as a stationary holder, the ticket or other form being drawn out from the holder to the desired point and then severed by the stripper. In this form it is especially applicable to mileage or commutation tickets, which are commonly made in continuous strips, successive layers of the strip being drawn out and severed until the strip is Wholly used, when a new strip may be placed within the holder.

Many other uses will readily suggest themselves for my combined slip holder and stripper in either of its forms, whether the holder is moved upon a book or pad of the slips, or the slips drawn out of the holder, and from an illustration and description of the invention in these two applications, the modification of forni of the holder and stripper for other uses will be readily understood.

In the accompanying drawings:-Figure l is a perspective View of the holder and stripper in its preferred form applied to a book 0f conductors cash fare receipts. Fig. 2 is a 434,941. Divided mais application flied December 9, 1892. serai No.

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similar View showing a modification. Fig. 3 shows the holder and stripper applied in its preferred form to a'continuous strip mileage or commutation ticket. Fig. 4 is a cross section taken through the holder and pad of Fig. 1.-

Referring to said drawings, the cash fare book or pad A of Fig. 1 consists of the usual series of forms secured together at one end, and preferably provided with a stiff pasteboard back. Y v

The holder and stripper consists of two narrow strips B, C which may be of wood, metal, cardboard or. other suitable material,` one of which is capable of forming a hard straight edge suitable to cut paper, or to which such a straight edge of metal or other material may be secured. These two strips B, C are provided with holes, one at each end, and through these holes is passed an elastic band 2. The two strips B, C are thus held pressed together by the band, which, with the strips, incloses the slips forming the book or pad, and as the slips are used up the two strips will be brought closer together by the elasticity of the band 2, and the slips thus held until the book is entirely used up, When the holder and stripper maybe removed and used with other books until worn out.

It will be seen that by providing the two strips B, C upon opposite sides of the book or pad, the holder will slide readily upon the book and Without the friction resulting from the contact of the elastic band with the book, and by this construction, also, the stripperB is always held at right angles to the book. While it is preferable, however, it is not necessary that both strips "should slide upon the book, but a holderl and stripper in the form shown in Fig. 2 may be used in which one of the strips C forms the pasteboard back of the book or pad, and the strip B carrying the stripper is moved along the surface of the book or pad by stretching the elastic band 2, returning to a xed position upon the book when released.

In Fig. 3 I have shown my holder and stripper applied in connection with a continuous strip mileage ticket, the strips B, C in this construction being-preferably made approximately the size of .the folded ticket, and two IOO bands 2 being used on account of the increased width of the holder. It Will be understood, also, that the holder may be increased to any desired length and the number of bands correspondingly increased if desired. In this construction the top strip B, which preferably forms the straight edge is provided with an opening 3 through which the ticket may be read for convenience in using the ticket. It will be understood, however, that this is not necessary, as the ticket may be read only as it is partially withdrawn from the holder.

In the drawings, the strips B, C are shown as provided with slits 4 extending from the holes 1 outward to the edges of the strips. This is a very convenient construction, as the common continuous rubber bands may thus be used, being slipped into the holes through the slits, but it will be understood that this is not essential to my invention considered broadly, but the bands maybe applied in any other suitable manner.

It will be seen that my invention provides a very simple, convenient and efficient cornbined holder and stripper which may be used indefinitely and in the preferred form is not a part of the book or ticket but independent thereof, so that it may be used for an indefinite number of tickets. It is evident, also, that the use of my holder and stripper is not to be limited to tickets, but that it may be used for holding slips of any kind from which a portion is to be detached.

This application formsa division of my application, No. 434,941, filed May 31, 1892.

What I claim is- 1. A combined holder and stripper for forms and similar slips consisting of strips B, C secured together by one or more elastic bands 2, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a series of forms or similar slips, of a combined holder and stripper inclosin g the slips and consisting of strips B, C secured together by one or more elastic bands 2, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a pad or book of forms or similar slips, of a stripper movable along the slips and forming a part of a combined holder and stripper inclosing the slips, and consisting of strips B, C secured together by one or more elastic bands 2, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a pad or book of forms or similar slips, of a combined holder and stripper inclosing the slips, consisting of strips B, C secured together by one or more elastic bands 2 passing through holes l in said strips and sliding upon the pad or book, substantially as described.

5. A combined holder and stripper, consisting of strips B, C, provided with holes 1 and slits 4, and elastic band 2 passing through said holes, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. II. CAMPBELL. Witnesses:

C. J. SAWYER, PAUL HERMANN. 

